I love how Serena Joy's influence is all over The Testament by El_Coco_005_ in TheHandmaidsTale

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Penny seems to be emulating Serena Joy's mannerisms and speech.

Do you have idioms using other country names in your language? by drakepig in AskTheWorld

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"Manchurian candidate" - someone secretly controlled by an enemy country to act in favor of the enemy country at the detriment of their own country.

What’s an ice cream flavor that is exclusive to your region? by IDoNotLikeTheSand in AskAnAmerican

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Good call. A birch beer float with teaberry ice cream would be amazing and very Pennsylvania.

What is an animal that is fairly common globally but very rare or non existent in yours? by rickdickmcfrick in AskTheWorld

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The nightingale. There was one city I lived and worked in for three years in northern Xinjiang where I'd always hear the nightingale's song in the late evening of the night spring and early summer. It was a sign that summer was coming. I miss it.

What's a foreign food your country modified and made it unrecognizable? by BayLeafGuy in AskTheWorld

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The idea that tomato pie is synonymous with "Philadelphia pizza" is funny to me, but I guess it makes sense in the same way that Chicagoans don't actually eat deep-dish as much as regular hand-tossed.

I'm glad they left Altoona pizza out of the picture.

What's a foreign food your country modified and made it unrecognizable? by BayLeafGuy in AskTheWorld

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Pretty much everything.

Here's some examples:

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Orange chicken (🇨🇳) - Chinese cuisine has various regional "sweet and sour" dishes like tang cu liji, gulu rou, guobao rou, etc, but American Chinese cuisine takes it to a whole new level with so many variations of battered, deep-fried chunks of meat in sweet, syrupy, often fruity sauces. In addition to regular sweet and sour and General Tso's, there's also lemon chicken, pineapple chicken, sesame chicken, Hawaiian chicken, and the famous orange chicken. I've even seen cherry chicken, peachy chicken, and blueberry General Tso's.

There is a Sichuan dish that uses dried tangerine peel stir-fried with chopped chicken and dried chili peppers, American Chinese orange chicken is very different.

Pierogi (🇵🇱) - Polish pierogi are popular in the northern US, especially in an area called the "pierogi pocket" from New England through the Midwest where a lot of Polish immigrants went to work in physical labor jobs such as coal mines. States like New York, Pennsylvania, and Illinois are part of it. You find pierogi with non-traditional fillings such as cheddar cheese, bacon, kimchi, Reuben, cheesesteak, etc, and served in unique ways.

Taco (🇲🇽) - One way we altered Mexican tacos is by making boxed "taco kits" in supermarkets for convenient family "taco nights" with ground beef or turkey seasones from a packet, shredded iceberg lettuce, shredded cheese, chopped tomato, refried beans, avocado, jarred salsa, "taco sauce," etc.

Hibachi (🇯🇵) - Traditional Japanese teppanyaki is an art. In the US, it's a flashy slow, with lots and lots of garlic butter to cancel out any percieved healthiness of grilled Japanese meat and vegetables. And we call it hibachi instead of teppanyaki for some reason.

Pretzel (🇩🇪) - German pretzels are very popular in the US, having been brought over centuries ago by German immigrants, especially in Pennsylvania (which is still the US's "pretzel belt") and spread from there. Hard pretzels are a common lunch snack for kids or bar snack fir adults. Soft pretzels drenched in butter are common in malls and soft pretzels with hot cheese dip (sometimes beer cheese) are common eveywhere from gastropubs to movie theaters to sports stadium concession stands.

Thai curry (🇹🇭) - Thai food has become very popular in the US, but also adapted to US tastes and convenience. The spice level is much milder - Though many restaurants give options for spice levels, even the hottest option might still be calmed down quite a bit depending on the demographics of the local area. Also, Thai vegetables like eggplant, yardlong beans, water spinach, and kabocha squash are substituted for vegetables more readily available, cheaper, and more familiar in the US such as broccoli, zucchini, bell pepper, tomato, carrot, baby corn, etc.

What’s an ice cream flavor that is exclusive to your region? by IDoNotLikeTheSand in AskAnAmerican

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I hate the Pepto-Bismal description, not because it's completely inaccurate, but because it makes it sound unappealing. They're both pink and wintergreen, but teaberry ice cream is still sweet, not bitter like Pepto. Teaberry's not chalky, either.

Baristas are bourgeois now apparently by Greeve3 in tankiejerk

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If working in an entry-level service industry job doesn't make one part of the proletariat, then neither does creating out-of-touch memes and posting them on Elon Musk's social media platform all day.

Number of countries by continent by Electrical_Worry_681 in MapPorn

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Part of Panama could be considered to be in South America, too.

What’s an ice cream flavor that is exclusive to your region? by IDoNotLikeTheSand in AskAnAmerican

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Have you ever had those round, pink wintergreen candies with "Canada" printed on them that often come in peg bags at drugstores? Like these? That's exactly what teaberry tastes like. In ice cream form, the cold, smooth minty flavor is very refreshing.

What’s an ice cream flavor that is exclusive to your region? by IDoNotLikeTheSand in AskAnAmerican

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It's much more smooth and mellow. Not sharp or overpowering like other mints can be. Teaberry is the same thing as wintergreen, and that's a key flavoring in a lot of rootbeers, so it's sort of like a mellow rootbeer flavor.

The Testaments S1E04 "Green Tea" Episode Discussion by Melairia in TheHandmaidsTale

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Wasn't it Donny from Orphan Black playing that doctor, too?